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William Crimsworth escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school. Also included in this edition is Emma, Charlotte Bronte's last, unfinished novel. Both works are drawn from the original Clarendon texts.
2) Villette
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Lucy Snowe is a stoic young Englishwoman. Beset by adverse circumstances, on a momentary whim she travels to Belgium to seek her livelihood as a teacher in a girls' boarding school. There, surrounded by giddy pupils, under the control of the cunning school matron, wooed by an eccentric professor, and visited by the ghost of a nun, Lucy begins her adventure in true gothic fashion.
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Kensington Books
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Husband-and-wife British spies investigate a murder in Brussels amid a whirlwind of war and revelry in this "superb" Regency-era mystery (Historical Novel Society).
Removed to glamorous Brussels in the wake of Napoleon's escape from Elba, intelligence agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, warily partake in the country's pleasures—lush, bucolic afternoons followed by nights filled with lavish balls. But with the Congress...
Removed to glamorous Brussels in the wake of Napoleon's escape from Elba, intelligence agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, warily partake in the country's pleasures—lush, bucolic afternoons followed by nights filled with lavish balls. But with the Congress...
4) VANITY FAIR
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"No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth than the alluring, resourceful Becky Sharp, who ruthlessly clambers up the social ladder while her sweet, sentimental friend Amelia longs for her worthless soldier lover. As fortunes change, and battles are fought at home and abroad, who will survive?"--Book cover.
5) Waterloo
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 21
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Lured back to the army from a rural idyll, Sharpe's career culminates in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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Works volume 1-2
Oxford world's classics
Signet classic
Modern Library college editions volume T33
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Oxford world's classics
Signet classic
Modern Library college editions volume T33
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"On a broad and colourful canvas, extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles, Thackeray gives us one of the greatest social-satirical novels in the language - one of the most entertaining and profound, and, in the person of Becky Sharp, we have one of literature's most resourceful, attractive, and amoral characters. Essentially a commentary on hypocrisy and those ethical principles to which society pays...
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New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3
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[2018]
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"Hercule Poirot returns home after an agreeable luncheon to find an angry woman waiting to berate him outside his front door. Her name is Sylvia Rule, and she demands to know why Poirot has accused her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met...Poirot is equally shocked, because he too has never heard of any Barnabas Pandy, and he certainly did not send the letter in question. He cannot convince Sylvia Rule of his...
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CRIME & MYSTERY. With impeccable timing Hercule Poirot, the renowned Belgian detective, makes his dramatic entrance on to the English crime stage. Recently, there had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn, constant companion to old Mrs Inglethorp, had stormed out of the house muttering something about 'a lot of sharks'. And with her, something indefinable had gone from the atmosphere. Her presence had spelt security; now the air seemed...
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[2020]
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"Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach...
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Anne de Bohun trilogy volume 2
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Atria Books
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2005
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Enjoying her success as a merchant, exiled fifteenth-century single mother Anne incites the wrath of chauvinist local merchants, a situation that threatens to reveal her son's identity as the illegitimate son of the king.
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On the eve of battle, passions are running high...
IN THE SUMMER OF 1815, with Napolean Bonaparte marching down from the north, Brussels is a whirlwind of parties, balls and soirees. In the swirling social scene surrounding the Duke of Wellington and his noble aides de camp, no one attracts more attention than the beautiful, outrageous young widow Lady Barbara Childe. On their first meeting, dashing Colonel Charles
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"It's not that Verity Kent doesn't sympathize with those eager to make contact with lost loved ones. After all, she once believed herself a war widow. But now that she's discovered Sidney is very much alive, Verity is having enough trouble connecting with her estranged husband, never mind the dead. Still, at a friend's behest, Verity attends a séance, where she encounters the man who still looms between her and Sidney--and a medium who channels a...
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The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot—the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket—returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930.
"We Agatha Christie fans read her stories—and particularly her Poirot novels—because the mysteries are invariably equal parts charming and
...15) In Bruges
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Focus Features
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c2008
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Ray and Ken, two foul-mouthed Irish hit men, are hiding out in Bruges, Belgium. For Ray, Bruges is a place where you can spend a year in a weekend, while Ken finds the ancient town calming and contemplative. Ken and Ray work for Harry, a crime lord who eventually materializes in Bruges, and ends up proving that even professional hitmen have their feelings. A loopy, violent fable that is part thriller, part spoof, with a dash of dark comedy, leavened...
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Based on historical fact, this novel tells the story of the legendary Edith Cavell, a British nurse whose duties as a healer clashed with the demands of a ruthless occupying regime during World War I. At the request of a brilliant but hot-headed surgeon, Edith went from London to Brussels to create Belgium's first school of nursing. At the height of her success, the German army marched into neutral Belgium and took over her hospital and school. Swept...
18) The professor
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Sweet Cherry Publishing
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2022.
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Penniless and rejected by his cruel brother, William Crimsworth travels to Belgium to start a new life. He becomes a professor, and grows close to a young teacher he starts tutoring. But the girls in his class are determined to make trouble, and his new friend suddenly leaves the school without a word ...
19) Villette
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Sweet Cherry Publishing
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2022.
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Lucy Snowe has suffered enough loss and misery to fill a lifetime. When she moves to Villette and becomes a teacher, she hopes she can finally find happiness. Here, long-forgotten people and memories surface from her past. But Lucy finds that falling in love isn't straight-forward. And she keeps running into a ghostly nun that haunts the school grounds ...
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New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
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Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2020]
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While traveling from London to Kingfisher Hill to discretely investigate murder allegations against a wealthy client's wife, Hercule Poirot swaps seats with a nervous train passenger before a second killing is complicated by a series of impossible confessions.
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